::happy "valentimes"::

What a great weekend!!

The kids had valentines parties at school. Portie, of course, had Buzz valentines, and we made Chloe's this year. We thought they turned out pretty cute...

We decorated a cereal box for him to take to school to hold all his valentnes.

It was Buzz-ish.

He got lots of valentines from all his little friends.

In Chloe's class they decorated bags. She got lots of valentines too.

Then we made some Valentine-sy cupcakes for the grandparents. The kids love to decorate, so they thought this was way fun...

They turned out pretty cute, we thought.

We put 'em in some little cupcake boxes.

Then, friday night, the Mr. and I had a really fun date...

We went to eat at Market Street Broiler, and it was delilsh!

a really dark picture at dinner

We spent the night here...

our room...

our breakfast the next morning...

It was so fun. We've never stayed over just the two of us before. It was fun to be on a date for so long. That hotel was so cool! All the rooms are theme rooms, and ours was the Carriage Suite. It was cozy and nice. When we woke up Saturday morning, I asked Matt if he was going to go get Cooper (out of his bed like at home), we both just laughed. Our date was romantic, relaxing, and just perfect :)

The kids all stayed at Grandma & Papa Kitty's house. They had so much fun. They made treats, watched movies, played with toys, and stayed up late (and got up early!). We went and saw their new house, and helped them load some more stuff onto their storage thing.

On Valentines morning...

...we all got some valentines. Coloring books, cookies, a sippy cup, and some sweets.

We had a valentine-sy dinner too...

Chloe cut out some hearts...

We made some heart shaped rolls...

...and had some homemade corn chowder (and it was goooood!)

We had such a great weekend. All day today, Portie told us "happy valentimes." The kids are so sweet, and it's fun to have a day completely devoted to the ones you love :)

::mow the snow::

We got some snow this morning, and when we got home from taking Chloe to school, Port-Port thought he'd better mow it...

"wiss his moweh."

And he did...

::greatest snow on earth::

That's right, we have the greatest snow on earth, and Sarah and I 'boarded in in for a while today. Fun doesn't even begin to properly describe our day. It was SOOO great! We had the best time.

It had snowed the night before and this morning, so we had LOTS of fresh powder. I can't say that I've ever skied on powder before, and it was great! Look at it all, you can't even see our boards!! We had to do some serious stomping after each run to get that snow off.

An awesome picture of Sae!!...

After a few runs, and almost getting taken out by

"BrIh-ttNeY", we decided we needed to get away and go try some jumps. We made a few attempts. My first was not successful, I chickened out and just went over the hump. The next few we did better. I got a bit of air (which we weren't able to get on camera-dangit!!), and landed a couple of them! Go me!!

I think this was my best one...I was just landing it (oh yeah, I landed it!!)

(Not too sure about this picture. I think I either just fell, or Sae just told me she didn't get me in the air again)

I looked through her camera at the shots of the jump to see if we got it and came across this little beauty...

...Sae's self portrait; taken while she was waiting for me to do my jump. "When did this happen" haha

We got some of eachother coming down-some actions shots!! Here's me...

Here's Sarah, goin' for the jump!

'Cause you gotta have some strong arms when you're snowboarding-to pick

yourself up if you fall. Not that we ever fell...

What an awesome day!! It was so fun! We laughed a lot, took lots of pictures (thanks to Sarah's camera), and had so much fun together! We decided we need to do a big family day again like last year.

BIIIG thanks to Grandma Snowman for watching those babies all day. It was much appreciated :)

::parents' day::

Today was parents' day with Chloe's tumbling group. The parents get to come watch, do some of the things the kids do, and participate in some of their activities. So I went with Port-Port and Coopie.

Chloe was cute and excited to show us her stuff. Porter LOVED it! (He's not in any tumbling right now because he's too young for jr. gym (had to be 4), and too "good" for the mom & me class-he did it last summer and did great, and even got a little bored with it and started doing crazy things.) Porter loved doing everything Chloe did. He ran around with her, did "hant stants", stretches, jumps, and some extra things. He thought it was great.

He and Bubb crawled around a little. I mostly had to hold Coops the whole time so he wouldn't get tumbled on.

Chloe's been working really hard on her back handsprings. She's totally got it down! She can only do it on soft floors, but she can do it all on her own with no spotter! It was fun to watch her.

Miss Jenn telling them to show us thier trampoline routines...

Another back handspring...

And now some toning exercises to end the day...

We also did some stretching, ball passing (with a weighted ball), races, and some hand stand drills. She was really excited to have us there. It was fun for her to have Portie and Coopie watch her and do a little bit of what she does. Coopie even did some stretching with her. She loves to tumble and she loves her teacher. It was a fun little afternoon, and she was really giggly the whole time.